Questions tagged [scam]
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Suspected server or data vulnerability and reporting a fraud site
Two days ago someone created a website that has the exact same domain of the company I work for, but missing one letter, and sent a mail campaign to many people that there is a promotion on the website, when you go to the website you (as…
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UCEPROTECT uceprotect.net Issues
Has anyone else seen a HUGE rise in the number of hosts being listed in UCEPROTECT uceprotect[.]net blacklist? I've had hosts in the last few months on a variety of major cloud providers that don't send email at all and are listed in this extortion…
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Domain Registration Scams?
I frequently get emails like the one below. I assume they're a scam, but I don't know how the scam works.
Dear manager,
We are a professional Internet
consultant organization in Asia, which
mainly deal with the global
companies’ domain name…
Roddy
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How do "driver scanner" applications work?
For example, how does "Driver Scanner" from uniblue work?
I mean, I know it's some kind of scam, but they need to provide some kind of service, after people pay for this app. So how does the full version work? Does it really improve anything, or is…
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What should I do with e-mail scammers?
I have the IP address of a scammer (I convinced them to hit my web server) whose mail made it through my filters and would like to do something meaningful about it. Can I? I thought about telling their ISP, but dig -x shows the netblock owner as a…
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Scammers using my mail server
A scammer is using my mail server to send his scams, is there any way I can block him?
I'm using Exim4 and Dovecot on a Debian Stable distrib.
Here is the mail delivery I'm receiving:
------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers.…
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How to block trafic from anonymous proxy to my site?
some scammers are trying to reach my site using anonymous proxy.
Is there a way to block connexions from anonymous proxy with haproxy or nginx?
Thanks
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